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frogprincesnowglobe · 10 months

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I was tagged by @missmeganlee and @simonsapelsin for this tag game! Thanks guys I love this stuff so much. Also, Meg you fenced saber? How cool is that! And Simonsapelsin I'm curious about the naughty cat. Need naughty cat details for sure.

Where were you born? Southern California, USA

Are you named after anyone? My name was kind of meant to sound similar to one of my dad's great aunts, the same kind of vibe at least. My middle name is in honor of the baby girl my parents had before me, who didn't live long. It was her middle name too. And my mom liked it because it's a flower name (my middle name) like my Grandma had.

What's your eye colour? Brown

What sports do you play/used to play? I dabbled in dance as a kid, and I did a little horse riding in my early 20's but nothing really stuck.

Favourite subject in school? I liked English the most, sometimes social studies. I read a lot as a kid so English was pretty great. I really disliked that we had to wait and "no reading ahead" was commonly brought up. I wanted to get passionate about the books and keep going with them. But it was my favorite for sure. Don't ask me about math.

How tall are you? I'm not sure? I was told 5'5 1/2 years ago but when I had to have crutches last year the nurses claimed I had to be taller because the crutches height for 5'5/5'6 didn't work. I had them measure me recently and they said 5'4. So...5'4--5'5?

Do you use sarcasm a lot? I'm very sarcastic. I like one liners and stuff as well.

What's the first thing you notice about people? Probably their hair and outfit.

Scary movies or happy endings? I prefer happy endings. I used to watch loads of scary movies but I can't anymore. I want good, happy endings. :D

Any special talents? I can crochet really well, if that counts.

What are your hobbies? I love baking and watching historical baking and cooking videos. I also enjoy reading, I collect antique and vintage books (particularly mysteries), sometimes geocaching is cool. Crochet, I used to collect dolls and I'm getting back into that. Video games. But I'm not really consistent, stuff comes and goes in waves. My main hobby is currently blogging about this little show from Sweden about this prince and......

When was the last time you cried? Today. I had some tears well up. I had a good cry yesterday too.

Do you have pets? I have a Turtle named Leonardo. Leo has been my buddy for 15 1/2 years. I also have a black kitty with a little white tummy named Snoopy. She was a relative's cat who I've taken in after they passed away. She is very spoiled and has recently become much more open and showing a really strong personality.

Do you have kids? No kids currently. My brother has plans though so aunt duties in the future!

Dream job? Same as Megan. I'm not sure but I need something where I can make my own schedule and be creative. No desk job please, I get bored easily.

I'm going to Tag These lovely people who can do it if they feel like (no pressure but I love hearing about you)

@snallavanta @atdawnweryd @andthatisnotfake @notalotgoingonatthisinstant @bluedalahorse and @freakishly-bookish-ant

#Tag game

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refersmss · 4 months

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Unveiling the Ultimate Path to Learning: Top 10 Countries for Education Excellence

In the realm of global education, finding the perfect destination to foster academic growth is paramount. Whether you're a prospective student or a parent guiding their child's educational journey, the choice of the best country for education can significantly shape one's future. At [Your Website Name], we have meticulously researched and curated a list of the 10 Best Countries for Education, ensuring that your path to learning is nothing short of extraordinary.

1. United States: A Melting Pot of Educational Brilliance

Nestled at the forefront of innovation, the United States stands tall as a beacon of educational excellence. Renowned for its prestigious Ivy League institutions, cutting-edge research facilities, and a diverse range of academic programs, the U.S. offers an unparalleled learning experience.

2. United Kingdom: Tradition Meets Modernity

With a rich history in academia, the United Kingdom beckons learners with its blend of tradition and modernity. From the historic halls of Oxford and Cambridge to vibrant urban campuses, the UK provides a holistic education that transcends conventional boundaries.

3. Canada: Where Nature and Education Coexist

Canada, a land known for its breathtaking landscapes, also boasts world-class educational institutions. A welcoming environment coupled with a focus on research and innovation makes Canada an attractive destination for those seeking a well-rounded education.

4. Germany: Engineering Education Excellence

Renowned for its engineering prowess and commitment to research, Germany emerges as a top contender for STEM enthusiasts. The country's tuition-free education system and emphasis on practical skills make it a haven for those aspiring to make strides in science and technology.

5. Australia: Southern Hemisphere, Global Education Hub

Australia's vibrant cities and high-quality education system make it a preferred destination for students worldwide. From arts to sciences, Australian universities offer a diverse array of courses, fostering a dynamic learning environment.

6. Sweden: A Model of Educational Innovation

In the heart of Scandinavia, Sweden stands out for its innovative approach to education. The country's emphasis on critical thinking, creativity, and a student-centric approach creates an environment conducive to intellectual growth.

7. Singapore: Southeast Asia's Educational Gem

As a global financial hub, Singapore extends its prowess to the realm of education. With a strong emphasis on technology and business-related fields, Singapore provides a unique educational experience that combines academic rigor with real-world applications.

8. Japan: Where Tradition Meets Technological Advancement

Japan, a nation balancing tradition and cutting-edge technology, offers a distinctive educational landscape. Renowned for its research contributions and technological advancements, Japan stands as a gateway to Eastern wisdom and modern innovation.

9. Netherlands: A Cultural Tapestry of Education

The Netherlands, with its picturesque landscapes and multicultural society, offers a truly international educational experience. Renowned for programs taught in English, the country provides a welcoming atmosphere for students seeking academic diversity.

10. Switzerland: Precision and Prowess in Education

Switzerland, synonymous with precision and excellence, extends its attributes to education. Home to some of the world's top-ranked universities, Switzerland's commitment to quality education makes it an ideal destination for those pursuing academic distinction.

In conclusion, choosing the right country for education is a pivotal decision that can shape your future. The aforementioned countries offer diverse opportunities, ensuring that your educational journey is not just informative but transformative.

#Parenting

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tomorrowedblog · 8 months

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Friday Releases for September 1

Friday is the busiest day of the week for new releases, so we've decided to collect them all in one place. Friday Releases for September 1 include The Equalizer 3, All Fun and Games, Nandor Fodor & The Talking Mongoose, and more.

The Equalizer 3

The Equalizer 3, the new movie from Antoine Fuqua, is out today.

Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he’s done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends’ protector by taking on the mafia.

All Fun and Games

All Fun and Games, the new movie from Eren Celeboglu and Ari Costa, is out today.

The Russo Brothers’ AGBO presents a terrifying tale about a group of Salem teens who discover a cursed knife that unleashes a demon that forces them to play gruesome, deadly versions of childhood games where there can be no winners, only survivors.

Nandor Fodor & The Talking Mongoose

Nandor Fodor & The Talking Mongoose, the new movie from Adam Sigal, is out today.

When famed paranormal psychologist Dr. Nandor Fodor (Simon Pegg) investigates a family’s claims of a talking animal, he uncovers a mysterious web of hidden motives. Soon, everyone becomes a suspect in Dr. Fodor’s relentless pursuit of the truth.

A Day And A Half

A Day And A Half, the new movie from Fares Fares, is out today.

To reunite with his daughter, Artan (Alexej Manvelov) takes his ex-wife Louise (Alma Pöysti) hostage and embarks on a thrilling and emotion-charged road trip with her and police officer Lukas (Fares Fares). The journey takes them through rural Sweden during a hot summer, all while having police on their heels.

Ernest & Celestine: A Trip To Gibberitia

Ernest & Celestine: A Trip To Gibberitia, the new movie from Julien Chheng and Jean-Christophe Roger, is out today.

Ernest remains an ursine troubadour dedicated to a life of music and art, and his constant grouchiness is softened by the creative whims of his mouse friend Celestine. When she accidentally breaks his beloved violin, they must take a long voyage to Ernest’s country of Gibbertia, home to the only artist who can repair it. But when they arrive, they are shocked to discover that all forms of music have been banned in Gibbertia for many years, and a land once known across the world for its incredible musicians has fallen silent.

It is up to Ernest and Celestine and their new friends, including a mysterious masked outlaw, to bring music and happiness back to the land of bears.

King of Killers

King of Killers, the new movie from Kevin Grevioux, is out today.

Based on a graphic novel by writer-director Kevin Grevioux, King of Killers follows former Agency hitman Marcus Garan (Alain Moussi) as he attempts to unravel the mystery behind a tragic incident. When offered a $10 million contract to eliminate the world’s greatest assassin, Marcus travels to Tokyo to meet the client (Frank Grillo), but discovers other professional killers have been invited as well. Now Marcus and the others must confront this deadly, mythical assassin… or die trying.

Perpetrator

Perpetrator, the new movie from Jennifer Reeder, is out today.

Brace for a birthday surprise with a twist in ’Perpetrator’ as Jonny unravels her family’s feral secret.

The Good Mother

The Good Mother, the new movie from Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, is out today.

Starring Academy Award-winner Hilary Swank, the film follows a journalist grieving the murder of her son who forms an unlikely alliance with his pregnant girlfriend (Olivia Cooke) to track down the killers in the seedy world of drugs and corruption.

The Wheel of Time S2

The second season of The Wheel of Time, the TV series from Rafe Judkins, is out today.

The lives of five young villagers change forever when a strange and powerful woman arrives, claiming one of them is the child of an ancient prophecy with the power to tip the balance between Light and Dark forever. They must choose whether to trust this stranger – and each other – with the fate of the world before the Dark One breaks out of His prison, and the Last Battle begins.

Disenchantment S5

The fifth season of Disenchantment, the TV series from Matt Groening, is out today.

We watched Bean grow, from reluctant Princess to defiant rebel, and now, come Part 5, her journey will finally come to an epic finale - feat. the ultimate confrontation against Queen Dagmar, her evil mother.

Flying Objects

Flying Objects, the new album from Smoke DZA and Flying Lotus, is out today.

#Movies #TV #Music #News

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bitchapalooza · 3 years

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I got a little carried away with names today. Started with Sweden then went all over the place lmao. I'd like your guys' opinions on the names I've chosen before I ever use them in published works.

Sorry for the long read in advance ^^

Sweden: Berthold— I just like it. Not 100% sold on it though. He still has his canon surname as, as far as I know, there are no issues with it.

Denmark: Mikkel Hanssen— I just like it lol.

Ladonia: Oscar(or Oskar)— Its pretty sweet which is why I'm pretty sure Sweden would have chosen it for him. Not sure which spelling I like better. Shares a surname with Sweden.

Liechenstien: Lotta Vogal— I like em both. Not super sure how correct in origin or popular Lotta is as I keep getting mixed results, often talking about Scandinavian origin and bringing up the name Lottie and how popular that is in America. But it does mention how its used in German speaking countries.

South Italy: Lorenzo— Its from both Italy and Spain so I think it fits Romano well. The meaning not so much but Romano probably picked it because that's how he'd like to see himself one day??

Rome: Gaius Vergilius Crispus— The praenomen Gaius comes from the same root as gaudere, which means to rejoyce, happy which fits Rome to a T. His nomen is Virgilius as a reference to poet Publius Vergilius Maro(Virgil). Crispus as his cognomen because of his curly hair. I wanted Romulus to be his praenomen, however Romulus is not a praenomen whatsoever. It seems to be a nomen. I'm quite fond of Virgilius though to be honest. I actually had to deep dive this one to make sure everything was correct(meaning and order). The praenomen are the given names and those weren't normally used outside of the family(meaning only Romano and Italy would call Rome Gaius). Rather it was either their nomen or cognomen used freely. So I had to keep the importance of each name in mind; I couldn't really find the meaning behind Virgilius except that it is the latinized version of the english Virgil.

Seborga: Alonzo— Finally found a name for Seborga that I think fits better than Romeo! Well I'm still not sure of it for the long run but it does fit better than Romeo at least(in my opinion).

Italies' surname: Russo— Not super sure of this one. Its Sicilan/Southern Italian in origin but quick google searches repeatedly tell me that it has spread to other regions due to internal migration. It's also the second most popular surname in Italy(or that's at least what several sites have told me). I'm not sure if Russo is a good name for all three of the Italy brothers, but I do think its at least a plausible one for Romano. And as Romano is the older brother, perhaps Veneziano just took it some time after unification? Maybe to try and feel closer to the brother he barely grew up with?

Greece's surname: Katsaros— I dunno about this one still. But curly-haired is at least better than being a watermelon. Might change later, might not.

Cyprus: Demetris Georgiou— Not super sure about his name as a whole. Nicos is an alternative given name. Not sure about an alternative surname.

America's middle name: Fitzgerald— Its speculated that the F in his name is a reference to John F. Kennedy(or its Freedom). John F. Kennedy's middle name is Fitzgerald. There you have it. Actually, I honestly didn't know JFK's middle name was Fitzgerald beforehand, I kinda just really liked Fitzgerald as America's middle name already. Then I went into looking up the name's origin and meaning and google just handed this fact to me kinda randomly. Either way, I really do like the ring Alfred Fitzgerald Jones has.

Australia: Kyle King— I just like the name Kyle for him. It sounds nice. No deep reason for choosing Kyle. King, however, I feel like he might have chosen to like say fuck you to England after abandoning him? Like I'm the King now?? I'm in control?? From what I've seen on a few sites, King is a fairly common surname. Also considering Martin or Walker as alternative options.

New Zealand: James Brown— He looks like a James so he is a James. According forebears.io, Brown is the 4th most common surname in New Zealand. I'm not super sold on this surname yet but I do quite like the combination of it with James.

Wy: Charlotte "Charlie"— She gives off a lot of tomboyish vibes to me so I wanted to give her a kinda "boyish" nickname that Australia most likely started. Well it just so happens that Charlotte is a pretty popular name in Australia! She shares Australia's surname.

Hutt River: David— He just looks like a David. Plain and simple. Shares a surname with Australia. Despite being dissolved, I still like his character(and design) so I refuse to acknowledge him being dead lmao.

Molossia: Maximilian "Max" Theodore Jones— I picked a kinda flashy name for him because I tried to think like him while choosing it. He looks up to America. America is often flashy and exaggerated. What better way than to get your mentor's attention than by a name like Maximilian?? And I simply thought Theodore would be a good correlation to the middle name I gave America; they're both references to US presidents(Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy).

Kugelmugel: Tobias— No super deep reason. Its common in Austria in the year(or close to) when was he founded. I think Austria isn't super creative when naming things or people so he picked something common. Kugel probably does not care.

Osaka: Honda Tetsuya— I think he'd share Japan's surname rather than having his own. As for his given name, I chose something pretty common in Japan as a whole. I'm not sure about this choice, however.

Niko Niko Republic: Takahashi Shigeru— Again, picked common names. I didn't think he'd share Japan's surname, especially after dissolving. I thought maybe he'd like his very own name as he chooses his very own life to live out into old age y'know? Not totally confident in these name choices, however.

Monaco: Jules— I'm debating whether I personally like her having the same surname as France or not. I haven't found any alternative surnames yet as I'm not really dwelling on it. Jules, however, I think fits her pretty well.

Holy Roman Empire: Otto— Reference to Otto I, the Holy Roman Emperor, as well as Otto von Bismarck to kinda correlate the Germany-HRE theory(whether I 100% believe it not).

I'm honestly considering giving Germany a different surname than Beilschmidt since he was never given one by Hima in the first place(even stated there was a reason for that). I'm not sure if I will or not because I'm still looking into surnames for HRE, which I'm having a hard time doing so if I'm honest. Its harder than picking Rome's tria nomina lol.

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captainalmostfamousllama · 3 years

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Buckle up everyone, its storytime!

Now i’m gonna tell you about the first time i had vodka, so i should start by giving you some background information; my hometown is called Åhus and its located in scania (skåne) in southern Sweden. My hometown is the only place where Absolut Vodka is made (picture below).

So vodka was basically everywere during my childhood especially since everyone in my hometown are very proud of our production of vodka. So lets just say that im not unfamiliar with vodka.

Anyway i was at my friends house and we had just finished eating when my friend asked if she could have some of her parents wine and they gave it to her, now since i was a guest they thought it would be rude if they didn’t so they gave me wine as well. My friends brother is an asshole but his mind works in the most ceonderful ways, so he started to discuss sauce and alcohol. He was like if saus has alcohol in it doesnt that mean that people are giving alcohol to children and his mom just went the alcohol is boiled away, dumbo. And well then he started talking about how maybe you could boil it on low heat, or add the alcohol later. And his dad just sighed and said: ill go get the shot glasses.

And suddenly me and my friend and her olderbrother are having shots of vodka with brunsås (which i do not know the english word for, its a sauce thats also basically the most swedish thing in existence, ill leave a picture below

This kind of saus also has a pretty thick consistency and its mostly eaten with meatballs. Btw Brunsås directly translates to Brown Sauce, really a creative name.)

For the record: I was 12.

#vodka #this is not what youre supposed to use brunsås for #completely #insane #technically it was only six years til i was legally allowed to drink in sweden #and basically every parent lets their child taste alcohol anyway #like i had drunken wine before

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allthingspieandhockey · 4 years

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Jack in leather...

So a few years ago I was out with my kids and wearing my Zimmermann hoodie, and one of my friends complemented it and asked me where I got it from. I told him I’d bought it and had the name put on, and he was like ‘Huh, I thought it was for Professor Zimmermann at Steneby University in Gothenburg, Sweden, who is an expert blacksmith’.

(Which, is a fair jump to make, as Swedish is my second language and I have a lot of connections to Sweden. Also said friend is an amateur blacksmith, so hence his knowledge of Professor Zimmermann). (I explained it was from a webcomic).

EXCEPT, it of course spawned fic ideas of Jack being this person, or at least related. Maybe they came to visit during Jack’s break between the Q and Samwell? And I just imagined him teaching his craft and travelling the world giving guest lectures. He gets into it through Lardo, the art department has a forge and he just starts playing around. He still goes into the NHL and plays hockey, but when a career ending injury takes him out before he is even thirty he takes it back up (and when all he’s feeling is the heat from the forge and sweat dripping down his face he’s glad it was a leg that was injured and not his hands or arms).

And can you imagine Bitty? Watching his husband working the forge in his studio/shed, leather apron, black soot covering him. It’s pretty damn gorgeous. Bringing him pie but just standing there and admiring him, and the different muscles that are taking shape as Jack works the metal.

Jack feels in control of the fire, and he channels all his focus into it, the same way he did with hockey, so of course it becomes a huge success and people start wanting to watch him, talk to him about his processes, gets him to talk to budding artists. His NHL career becomes a footnote, because in art circles everyone knows Jack Zimmermann of course, he’s the super talented blacksmith, who sometimes does photography or glass blowing when he gets an itch to do something different, but he has a creative eye for anything he seems to try.

And Bitty is famous for his own thing, the baking and the food, and people LOVE THEM. Jack makes an entire bakeware range especially for Bitty’s pies, and everyone just wants to invite them around for dinner, because they know that not only will Eric Bittle bring them something delicious to eat (he’s Southern and he CANNOT turn up empty handed when he’s been invited somewhere) and Jack has made serving dishes with metal offcuts which are all unique and it’s become a thing to own a Zimmermann piece.

(Is this going to turn into a 20k fic in the future just like my Skating Skates AU? Probably…)

#zimbits #ficlets #that will no doubt become actual fics at some point #Jack Zimmermann

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onestowatch · 3 years

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Joe Xu’s ‘The Grass Is Always Greener’ Is a Debut of Endless Promise

The anonymity of the name Joe Xu, a 21st century global non de plume par excellence, hides the revelatory gifts of the music inside. The source at first mysterious, the occasional drip of soulful southern U.S. drawl and a languid R&B tempo seemingly hint at its origins. Wrongly so. These are evidence of influences of course, but Xu is a wonderfully gifted Chinese songwriter native to Stockholm, Sweden.

Fresh off a seductively sultry and interrogatory-laden debut album, The Grass Is Always Greener, Xu is a celebration of diverse influences poetically rooted in the well-heeled theme of coming-of-age. Her songs cover all the topics bluntly felt by a 22-year-old finding her value and purpose: unchaining of tradition, shedding self-doubt, bridging the gap between childhood and adulthood. Material ripe for musical exploration and expression, and the album is full of big dreams in hand, chasing recognition, wanting to be heard.

Nordic pop she is not, leaving behind the mathematical tropes for an earnest, honest approach that prefers organic layering, a building technique that allows for Xu to pull back each song's most raw, emotive purpose (“Love me Love me not” being an obvious example). The deliberateness of the song construction, tension between the lyrics and production is so apt because Xu can handle both tasks equally, both producing and writing her own work.

On most of her debut album, the conventions of songwriting and production work in harmonious parallel, making room for each other, holding every moment accountable with near whispering drums flares and keyboard riffs (that slow bounce, then catch up cadence, so prominent in Beyoncé tracks, is ever present). As debuts go, it generates a sense of endless promise, a woman comfortable wrestling with her inner voice to deliver a beautifully wrought external one. But, what is most auspicious is what hasn’t been said, written or produced. The caliber of her early composition only suggests so much more is to come from this budding creative phenom. Let’s hope the grass is indeed green on her next work.

P.S. check out the visualizer for “South at the 8th Pt. 1.” It’s a cinematic beauty, a study in film references with a continuous full panning shot for over a minute-and-a-half. Its visual poise not only says its faire share about Xu’s incredible creative mind but also hints at a bundle of ideas yet to be displayed.

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#joe xu #new artist discovery #south at the 8th pt 1 #R&B #soul #album reviews

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markpaskewitz-posts · 3 years

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Making Sense of EU Current Events: How the European Union Got to Where It Is Today

Most Americans feel a sense of closeness with Europeans. We are in sync culturally. We have shared historical experiences. We love many of the same cars, luxury products, and tech gadgets. But do Americans really understand Europe?

For years, we have read about the Common Market, the European Union, the Euro – but do many Americans understand why these were formed, how they developed and what they were designed to do? The news is full of stories about Brexit, populism, and a backlash against migrants, but what is the overall context behind these movements and sentiments? How do these issues fit into the overall picture of Europe in the year 2021?

As a new writer, my humble wish is to use this column to create a space that explores the threads that interweave and make Europe such a fascinating place. Taken separately, there are many pieces of the past and present that are interesting. As we explore more and more pieces, it is my hope that they can become building blocks to create a better understanding of Europe as we find it today.

To start down this journey, it is necessary to be familiar with some key milestones in the life of the EU. In many ways, these tell the story of how Europe rose from the ashes of World War II and reached its current state - with all of its promises and challenges. To be able to understand the present, we need to take a few minutes to visit the recent past: Why was the European Union formed and how did it evolve? After understanding a few fundamental points, we can turn our attention with greater clarity to the challenges that faced by Europe and the European Union as it looks to the future.

For those of us in later generations, it is hard to imagine the magnitude of the problems that Europe faced in 1945. In the aftermath of the most destructive war that mankind had ever seen - millions dead and injured, factories and jobs wiped out, widespread economic collapse and hunger, mass homelessness. There was also the new reality of geopolitical competition between the West and the Communist East. Overall, the nations and the people of Europe were traumatized. They found themselves placed between a past that had gone down in flames and an uncertain future.

Out of this landscape of destruction and chaos, there emerged a group of leaders who had a vision for the future. They came from France, Germany, Italy, Britain and the United States. They dreamed of a Europe secured against the threat of another war and harmonious economically and politically. Americans showed leadership in the creation of NATO and generosity in the Marshall Plan, thereby offering protection to Europe and the financing needed to get recovery underway. For their part, the European leaders of the day planted seeds in the form of new institutions that ushered in the promise of a new political and economic order.

The seeds grew over time to become the European Union. Thanks to the creative vision of this generation of European and American leaders, the framework emerged for a Europe that could build on the foundation and yield more than 70 years of relative stability and prosperity. The founding institutions of this post-war Europe are among the greatest political achievements in modern history.

The Expanding Influence of the EU in the Lives of Member States and Citizens

It is useful to take a step back and review some of the key treaties and agreements that have created the Europe of today. They tell the story of deepening integration of the continent and the expanding role of the central European governing bodies.

MILESTONES IN THE HISTORY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Treaty of Paris (1951)

Founding members: France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg

Set up a central body to regulate industries and established a common market for coal and steel.

It set the template for future European Commision, European Parliament, and European Court of Justice.

French Prime Minister Robert Schumann and his German counterpart, Konrad Adenauer, were drivers behind this treaty.

Politically, the immediate goal was to make any future war between France and Germany “unthinkable”. Longer term, it was hoped that the ECSC would mark the birth of a future united Europe.

Treaty of Rome (1957)

Established the European Economic Community. Set up a customs union and mapped out progressive reduction of custom duties.

Proposed the concept of a single market for goods, labor, services and capital.

Created the European Commission to implement a Common Agricultural Policy, Common Transport Policy, and European Social Fund.

Schengen Agreement (1985)

Largely abolished internal border checks between members, allowing free movement of people across borders. Set up common visa policy.

Single European Act (1986)

Committed members to a timeline for economic merger (including a single currency) and common foreign and domestic policies.

It called for increased legislative powers for the European Parliament and streamlined the process for the passing of laws.

Maastricht Treaty (1992)

Officially created the “European Union”; provided common citizenship and passports

Allowed citizens to reside in any member state.

Established European Central Bank, paving the way for a single European currency; included provision to apply inflation and public debt level requirements to future applicants.

Mapped out closer cooperation between police forces and courts in criminal cases.

Treaty of Amsterdam (1997)

Important changes to Maastricht agreement: members agree to transfer powers from national governments to European Parliament

Large impact on immigration, civil and criminal laws.

Treaty of Lisbon (2007)

Amends Treaty of Rome and Maastricht; relates to internal decision making processes (e.g. decisions by qualified majority rather than unanimous vote)

Created formal positions for President of the European Council and representative for Foreign Affairs.

With each of these agreements, the affairs of the member nation-states became more and more intertwined. Regulations were streamlined and made uniform. Goods and services could be traded across national boundaries more easily and cheaply. Citizens became able to travel freely without passports throughout large parts of the region. Changes in the labor rules created a continent-wide labor market. All in all, these new arrangements changed the face of Europe and the lives of many of its people.

Expanding Boundaries of the EU

While the dramatic alterations were underway, the European community itself was expanding.

Original members: France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg

1973: United Kingdom (exited 2020), Denmark, Ireland

1981: Greece

1986: Spain, Portugal

1995: Austria, Sweden, Finland

2004: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Cyprus

2007: Bulgaria, Romania

2013: Croatia

A Time of Dramatic Changes for the Europe and the European Union

As all of this was happening, there were fundamental policy shifts and historical waves at play as well. Beginning in the 1970s, richer countries began to subsidize poorer members with transfer payments. These allowed for more job creation and new infrastructure in the poor nations of southern Europe. The European Parliament was formed and, starting in 1979, began to have direct elections of its members. The period saw the development of an environmental movement in the west and, in the east, the Polish labor union began to put pressure on the Communist government. History reached a climax with the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and the subsequent collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, followed by Russia itself. There then was an emphasis on integrating these former members of the Warsaw Pact into the European community, culminating in a massive enlargement of the European Union in the first decade of the 21st-century.

Where Does the EU Go From Here?

The original concept of the European Union was visionary and the resulting structures changed the face of Europe. Europe has become prosperous and the degree of personal freedom and wealth is impressive. If this is so, then why do things appear to have gotten off track? Why is there so much ‘Euro-scepticism”, which reached a peak with Brexit? Indeed, as the role of the EU in the lives of citizens has become so much deeper, the level of resentment directed at the bureaucrats in Brussels has grown. Also, with the dramatically expanded number of member countries, new political, economic and cultural fissures have opened. The desire to be part of the EU has dissipated as the news has become full of reports on the constant squabbling over procedures, divergent views over the degree of economic and financial integration, and immigration policies. The outcome of the next chapter of the story of Europe will depend on how well its leaders navigate these tricky questions and whether the people of today hold on to the vision of freedom and liberty that guided earlier generations.

With this brief historical introduction out of the way, your humble columnist will begin to use this “About Europe” space to explore some of the issues and challenges facing Europe today.

#EuropeCurrentEvents

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thegodshavehorns · 4 years

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Guide to the Zodiac: The Sylph of Space

The major element of creation is love, and the major action of love is Art.

-Laxmi Prasad Devkota

Names & Epithets

The Auxiliatrix; The Godmother; Mother Sun; The Lady Grim, Bloody Mary / Bloody Maryam (derogatory); The Center of Creation; She Who Unfurls; The Speaker at the Beginning of Days; The Midwife to All Living; The Queen of All Countries; The Jade Woman; The Rainbow Drinker, the Bromeliad.

Symbolism

The Symbol of the Sylph of Space, written instead of her name, is ♍, the sign of Virgo.

The Sigil of Space is a six-armed spiral.

The colors associated with the Sylph of Space are black and white, and her sacred color is jade green.

Other symbols associated with the Sylph of Space are fangs, frogs (which she may be carrying or seated on), locks, needles and thread, prisms, rosaries, scrolls, stars, and the sun

Appearance/Portrayal

The Sylph of Space is seen as a young or middle-aged woman, with jade eyes. Her skin may be gray, like the other gods, or luminous with the most brilliant white. One of her horns curves straight back, and the other folds forward to form a sharp hook.

Like the Witch of Life, the Sylph may be depicted as pregnant, but this is rare: for all that she has a world-creative role, she is rarely portrayed as the “genitive element,” in that sense. She may appear symbolically with six arms, or six limbs, especially where her worship is conflated with the Thief of Light.

She is always seen wearing the most fashionable clothing, whatever that may mean in any given place and time, and there is such cultural variation in depictions of her garb that images of the Sylph are reliable aids in dating ancient artwork. That said, she more often wears bright colors than dull.

Domain/Associations

The Sylph of Space is generally associated with transformation, light, art (especially fashion), and motherhood. She is one who enables creation, who forms the nurturing environment in which grows culture and civilization itself. She is a supportive goddess, kind when she can be and firm when she must.

Through her association with light and the sun, the Sylph of Space illuminates the dark, spreading warmth and forging connections between those who are isolated and alone, whether they are individuals, towns, or whole planets. Her role in this is sometimes entirely literal.

The Sylph of Space is a patron of midwives all over the universe, a calm and healing hand in the creation of new life. She is just as well-known as a patron of art and artists, enabling creation of a different sort.

The nature of the Sylph’s connection to transformation is more mysterious, but most scholars agree that she has both gone through great transformations and allows others to do so. She is thus associated with amphibians, most often frogs, which must go through transformation to become their true selves. Sometimes she is depicted as creating, protecting, or even being a frog-pond. This is usually understood less literally than some of her other roles.

Major Holiday(s)

Croakmas may be the most important day of the year. It is certainly the most commercialized. Whatever particular version of the creation myth you subscribe to, Croakmas is the celebration of that creation, the reputed anniversary of the universe’s birth in most cultures.

To celebrate the Sylph’s role in the act of creation, celebrants catch frogs and then release them. Oceans, or at least very large lakes, of ink have been spilled in fighting the debate over whether toads are an acceptable substitute. There are also, of course, various rules which must be observed (e.g. if the frog is one which looks after its young, like the African Bullfrog, then it cannot be caught while it is protecting them). In large cities, one can mark the season by noting all the small businesses that pop up in late summer selling caged frogs.

Following frog releases, some cultures give frog-themed gifts, while others throw feasts, throw parties, or just throw gobs of brightly-colored paint. This is an especially common celebratory practice in Sweden and regions of the United States with Swedish immigrants, and may have inspired the secular game of paintball.

There are technically twelve days of Croakmas, but the twelfth is the most important. You can often judge a person’s religious fervor by noting how many Croakmas days they observe, but sometimes people just like the festivities.

Croakmas is one of the most popular days of the year to get married. The other popular candidates are any holiday celebrating the Rogue of Heart.

Churches and Cults

Outside of the Zodiac Church, the most popular religious institution worldwide is undoubtedly the Birthlight United Congregation, which focuses on worship of the Sylph and the Knight. In their sacred texts, they identify the Sylph as the generative mother of the universe, not midwife as is canonical to the Zodiac Church. In these depictions, it is the Knight who ‘midwives’ the birth of the universe, and, together with the Sylph, generates the other nine gods from the universal placenta, turning the blood into light and passing it through a prism.

It is sometimes said that worship of the Sylph is the oldest worship of all, even though archaeological evidence to this effect is debatable. Nevertheless, “Neo-Sylphism” and “Reconstructed Mono-Sylphism,” to name a few variants, are a growing religio-philosophical system all around the world. At this point, it can sometimes be rather difficult to classify any particular manifestation, given how the Neos and Reconstructeds and so forth have all cross-pollinated each other so thoroughly.

Some cults connect the luminance of the Sylph with the domain of the Thief, and claim that they are sisters, or lovers, or even the same being entirely. This is considered heresy by the Zodiac Church.

In the early part of the Twentieth Century, painter and mountaineer Edward Crowley published a series of (what he claimed were) dialogues between himself and the Sylph of Space. To prove their authenticity, he offered up a letter which had been allegedly written by the Sylph; a few people who are known to have been familiar with the Sylph were able to view the letter and vouched for it, but the letter was later lost in a fire and modern handwriting experts and theologians are divided on whether it was merely a good forgery. L. Ron Hubbard, who is more famous for his naval career, was also a high priest in the Order of the Jade Dawn, one of many offshoot religions that Crowley’s writings inspired.

Prayer and Worship

People pray to the Sylph for safe childbirth, and for healthy children, but not for fertility. She does not generate; she facilitates. The Sylph is also prayed to for inspiration, for healing of the body and mind, and for internal change.

Prayer to the Sylph almost always takes place under well-lit conditions, sunlight if possible. It is common for churches focusing on the Sylph to maintain community gardens along their southern wall, where the sun is brightest, a place both for prayer and meditative cultivation. Others set up frog ponds, for similar purposes. It is a common aspect of folklore that if one sees a frog while praying, then the Sylph is paying particular attention to you.

Lore

It is occasionally said that, if the gods created the universe, it is the Sylph who created the universe most of all. Sometimes she gives birth to it, but more often she midwives its birth, pulling it wailing and damp, and warm and new from wherever it came from. This ‘wherever’ varies by tradition. The Zodiac Church claims the universe’s providence is an egg, other groups claim that it was pulled from a deep pool of water, or from an earthen jug, or from a damp cave, or from the stomach of a huge dead beast.

The Sylph is usually understood as a moderating force in the pantheon, keeping peace between factions. She is a force of reconciliation, and is slow to anger. Just as well known, however, is the ferocity of her wrath, on the occasions that her anger is elicited. Enemies of the Sylph rarely get the chance to cross her a second time.

The nature of the Sylph’s transformative aspects are, as previously stated, somewhat controversial. It is well-known that she can change color and can emit light from every inch of her body, but why only she amongst the gods is capable of this is unknown. Some claim that this is a sign of ‘rebirth,’ a self-cleansing metamorphosis that is somehow more pure than that undergone by other gods. One heretical claim is that she herself once had the form of a frog, or toad, or other unsightly creature, and transformed into her current shape through the power inherent in creating the universe.

Public Relations

The Sylph is one of the most outgoing of the gods (some even say, the only god to enjoy their own divinity). She is a patron of the arts, and makes frequent public appearances.

The Sylph’s involvement in art, however, is more than simply donations of wealth or influence. She maintains two well-known, highly-selective ‘artist colonies,’ one in China and one in New Zealand, and though they are mostly run by her disciples, artists who have lived there claim to see her in person relatively frequently.

The Sylph is entirely responsible for faster-than-light travel: wherever the Sylph goes, space is bent slightly, and if she traverses the same route many, many times then space there will be warped severely enough that an ordinary traveler would find their progress greatly hastened. When it is time for a “mature” civilization to join the intergalactic community as a full member, as Earth hopes to do in the next couple of centuries, the Sylph goes back and forth, faster than the eye can track, until a new route is added to the network.

It is an unfortunate fact that these routes must be maintained, and the Sylph does not spend all her time knitting galactic civilization together, so the Sylph doesn’t draw a direct path between every set of two worlds. It is enough for each world to have a direct path to several other worlds, and indirect paths to all the others.

Some scientists believe that there are other methods of faster-than-light travel, but the gods are united in their position that Earth will undertake no research in such a direction until it is mature, and the reason is clear enough: even a very basic understanding of how secular FTL could work is sufficient to show that FTL travel means FTL weapons . With that understanding, it is forbidden by the gods that any being from Earth travel permanently off-planet. Some fortunate chosen of the Sylph of Space have seen the worlds of distant galaxies, but none are permitted to stay there.

#guide to the zodiac #kanaya maryam #godstuck #homestuck fanfic #godstuck fic #homestuck

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Best Documentary Short Film Nominees for the 92nd Academy Awards (2020, listed in order of appearance in the shorts package)

The Academy Awards may be finished, but I haven’t yet completed my annual tradition of reviewing all of the nominated short films for this year’s ceremony – this omnibus review will do the trick. Thankfully, the Oscars will revert back to their traditional last Sunday in February date next year (at least until 2022).

For the first time ever, I write an Oscar-nominated short film package review with a bias and – if you wish to phrase it – a conflict of interest. As a member of the Viet Film Fest 2019′s Curatorial Committee, I helped select Walk, Run, Cha-Cha for the film festival’s selection in early October. I am not at all affiliated with the production itself, but as a Viet Film Fest selection (a unanimous selection, mind you) I couldn’t help but feel proud of the film’s success.

Also, give these five films recognition for their fantastic titles.

Life Overtakes Me (2019, Sweden)

First identified in Sweden in the 1990s, Resignation Syndrome sees a psychologically traumatized child entering a catatonic state that could last for weeks, months, or years. It is considered a dissociative disorder that has only been affecting refugee children and adolescents who are going through an extended period of immigration limbo. Since Resignation Syndrome’s identification in Sweden, cases have been reported among refugee children who had been transferred from Australia – where asylum has been divisive to the nation’s politics for decades – to the now-defunct Nauru Regional Processing Centre (many refugees, hoping to be Australia-bound, are still on Nauru and statistics on how many children have Resignation Syndrome are not accessible) and in Greece. Life Overtakes Me, co-directed by Kristine Samuelson and John Haptas for Netflix, concentrates on the plight of Sweden-residing refugee children with Resignation Syndrome and their families. Many of these children in Sweden are from across Eastern Europe and the Middle East – some hail from as far as China’s Xinjiang province, home of the persecuted Uighur minority.

One doctor in the film describes the state of one child to her parents: “Your child is laying here like Snow White because everything is so terrible around her that this is a way of protection.” Life Overtakes Me, however, never adjusts its focus from explaining Resignation Syndrome. This is where it frustrates: neither the families nor their children are framed as being anything else than either the family of a child with Resignation Syndrome or a child with Resignation Syndrome. There is no discussion about the contemporary European migrant crisis, nor on the medical progress on understanding the complexities of the disorder and how to treat it. After depicting a child with Resignation Syndrome and another one, Live Overtakes Me has expended its see-it-to-believe-it aspects, becoming a tedious watch.

My rating: 6/10

Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl) (2018, United Kingdom)

There have been a number of nominees (and winners) in this category in the last decade that sometimes feel like a shameless plug for a non-profit providing wonderful things for an underserved group abroad. Carol Dysinger’s Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl), an A&E film, at times falls into that trap. The film documents Skateistan, a Kabul-based non-profit established in 2007 that administers a school for boys and girls (41% of the students are girls; the film will exclusively concentrate on the girls because of how contentious educating females was and is in Afghanistan), as well as the skate park attached to the school. In conjunction with their typical school subjects, skateboarding teaches the girls courage, resilience, and creativity. The film juxtaposes their beginners’ curiosity – examining closely their boards, playing with the wheels, not prepared to be balanced on a skateboard while rolling along without a teacher’s assistance – with their hardscrabble lives outside the school’s high (for safety reasons) walls.

Though these girls may not be competing in the Olympics (given that skateboarding is a new Olympic sport) anytime soon, the joy that skateboarding gives them is apparent. “I don’t want to grow up, so I can skate forever,” one girl says. If only. This is where Learning to Skateboard (If You’re a Girl) separates itself from the sports documentary/narrative film and becomes profound in a way I have not seen described by others who have seen the film. Similar to the fine and performing arts, sport is a medium of individual expressivity. An entry into ESPN’s 30 for 30 series can describe to a viewer the tactical dominance of the University of Miami’s (Florida) football team; I can also relate how the 2003-04 Arsenal (“The Invincibles”) played teams off the soccer field in becoming only the second team in English history to finish the top division’s season undefeated. But to those who are not engrossed in sport (or do not possess knowledge about the mechanics of a certain sport), it is difficult if not impossible to understand how those aforementioned teams played their games as a form of self-expression. By taking gender, a shade of politics, and Afghanistan’s history, it is easy for any viewer to see how – through skateboarding – these girls can express themselves in ways they could not anywhere else.

My rating: 8.5/10

In the Absence (2018, South Korea)

On the night before April 16, 2014, the Korean ferry ship MV Sewol departed Incheon for Jeju. The next morning, the ferry capsized and overturned. There were 172 survivors, but 301 passengers – mostly high school students who followed the captain’s orders to stay put, even as seawater started flooding the interior – and three crew members perished. The captain and other crew members disembarked during the rescue operation. Yi Seung-jun’s In the Absence documents, minute-by-minute, the actions of the disaster that sealed the fates of survivors and victims alike. Incorporating stock footage and Korean Coast Guard/government/civilian rescue diver recordings, Yi’s film portrays the desperation of the rescuers and the incompetence of those commanding them. The tragedy, from the moment that the crew recognized the danger of the situation, unfolds over several hours – enough time for a government response. Inexplicably, passengers were instructed to remain in place despite their inquires and the office of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye forbade all rescue boats from approaching the ferry until President Park herself gave orders.

Many of the documentaries – in short and feature-length – on the Sewol disaster follow the families of the deceased or the guilt among Coast Guard or civilian rescuers in not saving the victims in time. There are elements of both within In the Absence. Where Yi’s film diverges from those previous entries, however, is in its chronological precision in its first half and how seamlessly it transitions between the personal and the political (the film posits that the Sewol disaster response was a contributing factor to President Park’s removal, even though Park’s impeachment and eventual conviction had nothing to do, ostensibly, about the disaster) in the second half. From the committee hearings investigating the particulars of the government’s disaster response to the night of President Park’s removal from office, In the Absence packs an emotional wallop few documentaries of any length could achieve. One can see, etched in the faces of the victims’ parents, profound relief that someone is being held accountable for the disaster. That relief, though, is forever entangled with the fact that their loved ones are lost to the deep.

My rating: 9.5/10

NOTE: In the Absence can be viewed on YouTube as of this review’s publication.

Walk, Run, Cha-Cha (2019)

Chipaul (or just “Paul”) and Millie Cao were childhood friends in Vietnam (of Hoa descent) in the midst of wartime. During their childhood, they were enamored with American rock-and-roll and other popular music from the West – says Millie: “I love Bee Gees. And I can sing all Carpenters song [sic].” Chipaul’s family, who ran a business, saw the necessity to flee the country because of the Communist Party of Vietnam’s hardline attitudes towards political opponents – the Communist Party’s sins are too many to mention. Laura Nix’s Walk, Run, Cha-Cha, distributed by The New York Times, does not concentrate on war nor the fact that Chipaul and Millie, now married and living in Southern California after finding each other again (figuratively) through dance classes, are among the millions of Vietnamese-Americans – a community of refugees and their children and grandchildren – who have overcome cultural and linguistic barriers to make the United States their home. First and foremost, Walk, Run, Cha-Cha is a love story partially told through their passion for dancing. The film never loses sight of that.

Because this is a love story, there are those who might claim that Walk, Run, Cha-Cha is too slight a documentary short film to be taken seriously. That erases the fact the fact that when Vietnamese-American people or fictional characters are portrayed in Western cinema, they tend to be defined by a short list of tropes: the war-weary victim of war, an ineffectual gangster, or a nerd (this lumps in Southeast Asians with those of East Asian descent). Here, Chipaul and Millie are not defined by their pasts. Their dancing is not some act of overseas rebellion against the current government of Vietnam. Their family get-togethers do not ruminate over how difficult it was to sponsor Millie to become a permanent resident to the United States, but instead contain lighthearted conversations about the music they grew up listening and singing – endearingly a bit off-key – along to. Beyond the film’s requisite interviews, we see them in personal and recreational settings. Though perhaps not the strongest of the year’s nominated documentary shorts, Walk, Run, Cha-Cha flows the most poetically. Its final scene is perfection.

My rating: 8/10

NOTE: Walk, Run, Cha-Cha can be viewed on YouTube as of this review’s publication.

St. Louis Superman (2019)

Bruce Franks Jr. has spent his entire life in the greater St. Louis area. He has experienced firsthand incidents of gun violence (in general) and, following the death of Michael Brown at the hands of a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown’s death ignited a series of protests in Ferguson and brought to prominence the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement – formed to call attention to systemic racism (and especially police brutality and racial profiling) against black Americans. In a sort of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) for this certain context, Franks becomes a community activist in the wake of Brown’s death and is soon elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 2016. This MTV-produced film directed by Sami Khan and Smriti Mundhra is St. Louis Superman is a tad conventional in its biographical approach. The demands of being a state legislator and a family man are a curious balance to strike, and Franks is obviously not fully prepared – who would be? – to manage the expectations of his newfound role as public servant, father, and community leader.

It is fascinating that St. Louis Superman elects not to dive too deeply into politics, that Franks, a Democrat, highlights gun violence in its totality rather than police brutality towards black residents. Perhaps this is a political calculation, noting that Missouri’s legislature is majority Republican as is its current Governor. The film handles the personal adjustments made between Franks’ legislative career and his personal life, but whiffs – with the exception of the rap battle against a rival candidate for his seat – on juxtaposing how being a legislator invariably affects the nature of his community activism. Where St. Louis Superman succeeds is in its respectful portrayal of Franks as a man still nursing the wounds of having witness his nine-year-old older brother’s shooting death, and how this has driven him to where he is now. Franks, citing his mental health’s deterioration after the deaths of his godson and best friend in 2018, resigned from the Missouri House of Representatives in 2019. His career is a microcosm of the political struggles of African-Americans appealing to the decency of a seemingly unreceptive numerical majority, waiting and pressing the case of equal treatment in the eyes of the law.

My rating: 7/10

^ Based on my personal imdb rating. Half-points are always rounded down. My interpretation of that ratings system can be found here.

From previous years: 88th Academy Awards (2016), 89th (2017), 90th (2018), and 91st (2019).

#Live Overtakes Me #Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone #In the Absence #Walk Run Cha Cha #St. Louis Superman #Kristine Samuelson #John Haptas #Carol Dysinger #Yi Seung jun #Laura Nix #Sami Khan #Smriti Mundhra #92nd Academy Awards #Oscars #31 Days of Oscar #My Movie Odyssey

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Internationella utsikter för kreativa företag

Hur kan svenska företag expandera och nå ut internationellt? Femton sydsvenska företag inom den kreativa och kulturella sektorn var i Lund för att lyftas inför kommande mässor av kommunikationsexpert Lotta Brattin tillsammans med affärsutvecklare och coacher.

‑ Vi vill skapa en känsla av att det är möjligt, säger affärsutvecklare Lasse Mattiasson på The Creative Plot. Vi vet att företagen efter detta får det lättare att sälja in det de jobbar med.

Femton företag inom möbeldesign, inredning och mode träffades på Ideon i Lund för att ta nästa steg mot en internationell marknad. Lunds kommuns kulturinkubator The Creative Plot och Form/Design Center var värdar för Southern Sweden Creatives program som är anpassat för att förbereda företagen inför de kommande viktiga mässorna i London och Eindhoven.

‑ Vi finns i Sverige och Norge men är nu på väg ut i Europa, berättar Christer Olsson, vd på Norrgavel, som var en av deltagarna. Förhoppningen är att hitta rätt återförsäljare för detta. Londonmässan är en etapp på vägen, men vi letar också återförsäljare i Hamburg, Berlin och Amsterdam.

Southern Sweden Creatives stöttar små och mellanstora företag inom den kulturella och kreativa sektorn. Organisationen har satt ihop ett helt program och den första dagen i Lund var avsatt bland annat för PR och kommunikation, marknadsföring och varumärkesbyggande. Vem kunde då vara bättre att bjuda in för att inspirera än Lotta Brattin, modesveriges egen kommunikationsguru?

‑ Lotta är med för att hon är en av de bästa inom pr och kommunikation i Sverige, säger Terese Alstin på Form/Design Center och Southern Sweden Creatives. Jag tror det betyder mycket för de här entreprenörerna att lyssna till någon som har gjort resan själv och som kan ta entreprenörsperspektivet.

‑ Mötet med Lotta är en värdefull input på hur vi kan förbereda oss inför mässan, instämmer Sofie Richter på Norrgavel.

Lotta Brattin höll ett inspirerande föredrag om kommunikation och hämtade exempel ur sin egen karriär. Resten av dagen byggde på varje bolags förväntningar och mål inför mässorna och alla fick enskilda möten med coachteam som bestod av Hossein Lavi, Lasse Mattiasson, Christian Tellin, Katarina Scott, Terese Alstin och Lotta Brattin.

‑ Det här är en jättebra kickstart, säger Petra Lilja, industridesigner med designföretaget Petra Lilja design gallery. Vissa saker känner man kanske till men behöver höra igen, som till exempel att för- och efterarbetet till en mässa är så viktigt. Jag ska redan nu börja att förbereda mig för London i september.

‑ Det här har satt igång tankar och gett andra vinklingar, säger Jenni Thomasson på Kullaro. Det är bra att prata med andra som kanske ser ens problem på ett annat sätt.

Under dagen fick företagen hjälp att sätta upp listor på konkreta handlingar som kunde innebära allt från att stämma träff med kunder och kollegor till att göra kommunikationsplaner.

‑ Det har varit grymt mycket energi och många började genast att dra i saker, berättar Lasse Mattiasson. Genom att träffas här har vi skapat en gruppdynamik som de kommer att ha nytta av när de kommer till mässorna. Nu kommer företagen att vara väl förberedda och säkert ha lättare att lyckas på mässan.

Senare under våren kommer det att bli flera dagar för att hjälpa företagen inför mässorna, och då riktar man in sig på bland annat personliga värderingar, finansiering, budget och försäljning.

Southern Sweden Creatives består av Invest in Skåne, Region Skåne, Malmö stad, Film i Skåne, Media Evolution, NetPort Science Park, Lunds kommun/The Creative Plot, Form/Design Center och Helsingborgs stad. Projektet delfinansieras av EU, regionala utvecklingsfonder och Tillväxtverket och pågår mellan 2016 och 2019.

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Petra Lilja är industridesigner och driver Petra Lilja design gallery. Hon är också universitetslärare i industridesign och designforskning, men planerar nu att gå ner i arbetstid på universitetet och hitta mer ekonomi i företaget. Hon bytte erfarenheter med Maria Gustavsson på Swedish Ninja. Foto: Carro Wendt

Christian Tellin (till vänster) coachade bland andra Jenny Ekdahl, Ola Nystedt och Joel Herslow från Soft Studio. Foto: Carro Wendt

Terese Alstin från Form Design Center hade en diskussion med Christer Olsson om hans företag Norrgavels planer på att hitta återförsäljare i fler europeiska länder. Foto: Carro Wendt

Hossein Lavi (andra från vänster) var en av de sex coacher som hjälpte de sydsvenska företagen.

‑ Man ska våga vara sig själv och inte spela en roll för att man är i ett annat forum, var ett av Hosseins råd inför mässorna.

På bilden syns Kim Walltin, Future Days, Kristin Leibel från Andréason&Leibel och Naemi Gustavsson på företaget med samma namn. Foto: Carro Wendt

Lotta Brattin träffade många grupper under boostdagen på Ideon. Här pratar hon med bland annat Milan Kosovic från MKID och Jenny Nordberg. Foto: Carro Wendt

Jenni Thomasson och Andreas Kullaro på Kullaro vill kommunicera ut diabas som produktmaterial. Affärsutvecklare Lasse Mattiasson och Katarina Scott visar på möjligheter inför Londonmässan i höst.

#Southern Sweden Creatives #swedishdesign #Milandesignweek #swedishdesignmoves #design #londondesignfair #eindhoven #dutchdesignweek

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Ghost, Haunted House, and Full Moon

👻Ghost: Do you get scared easily?

Horror movie-wise?? No, i love this stuff, the spookier the better!! The only time when i got genuinely scared during a horror movie was in the cinema the first time i saw crimson peak, when my mom gRABBED MY ARM DURING A JUMPSCARE— That was way worse than anything that happened in the movie, honestly

When creepy unexplainable stuff happens in real life though?? I panic and SCREAM.

Story time: this summer i was away on a writing course on a small island in the southern parts of Sweden, and i’m almost 100% sure the room i got was haunted. Now, this island is a place with a long history that dates back to before the middle ages, and there’s something in the air there that really comes alive at dusk. Anyways, i sat in my room at this really big desk by the window and worked on a writing exercise, with the window blind closed so that i could focus on my writing. And then IT ROLLS UP BY ITSELF WITH THE LOUDEST SLAM, and you can guess how i reacted.

And i swear i didn’t touch the thing at all. The desk was too big for me to have been able to reach it with either my hands or my feet, and i sat there writing om my laptop. However, nothing more than that happened, so i guess that there either must have been some logical explanation to what happened, or maybe all the screaming i did scared the ghost away...

🎃Haunted House: Would you prefer to live in the city or the country?

Ooohh, this is a tough one... Usually, i prefer the city where there are people and lots of things are happening, but the countryside has a certain charm too, especially when it comes to writing inspiration... So my answer would probably be in a city (probably in some fancy old building near a park), but not too far away from the countryside.

👻Full Moon: Do you prefer nighttime or daytime?

NIGHTTIME!!! I’m 100% a nightowl, that is when my brain reaches peak energy/creativity!!

Thank you for asking!! ✨🎃✨

#ask meme #replies #scare-dy-crow

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MAJESTICA | Band release official video for the title track of their new album, Above The Sky

Swedish symphonic power metallers MAJESTICA, formerly known as REINXEED, release their debut album Above The Sky today via Nuclear Blast. To celebrate, the trio fronted by SABATON guitarist Tommy Johansson, has unleashed the official video for the album's title track. Watch and listen to the fast-paced anthem, 'Above The Sky', over on YouTube: youtu.be/yt9Ma1W_0wI Tommy states, "After working for almost 5 years on this album, we're so happy to announce that it's finally released now on Friday, the 7th of June. We have been waiting a long time to show this album to you all! The music video for 'Above The Sky' was filmed, directed and edited by Ronny Hemlin. We've been working with him on previous REINXEED videos so it felt like the right choice to contact him again. The video takes place on an airport in Southern Sweden, where no green screen was needed to create such cool video." Order Above The Sky in a variety of formats: All formats - nblast.de/MajesticaAboveTheSky Limioted Edition Digipack CD - nblast.de/MajesticaAmzCD Limited Edition Black Vinyl - nblast.de/MajesticaAmzVinyl Limited Edition Blue Vinyl - nblast.de/MajesticaBlue Digital album - nblast.de/MajesticaAboveTheSkyIT 01. Above The Sky 02. Rising Tide 03. The Rat Pack 04. Mötley True 05. The Way To Redemption 06. Night Call Girl 07. Future Land 08. The Legend 09. Father Time (Where Are You Now) 10. Alliance Forever Bonus Tracks (DIGI und 2LP only!) 11. Future Land (2002) 12. Spaceballs Watch and listen to 'Rising Tide' over on YouTube: youtu.be/LbSqFU-vW9I Watch and listen to the second single 'Night Call Girl' over on YouTube: youtu.be/pYcSTrdDu5g ----- ICYMI: Tommy gives us the lowdown on the band's history and the recording Above The Sky in the first album trailer: youtu.be/QIq6XHmvYqE Tommy discusses enlisting Uli Kusch (ex-HELLOWEEN) to play the drums on their new album and how it all came about: youtu.be/SWo9y9Dg7MY Track by track, part 1: youtu.be/97JvTNwQ0xs Tommy Johansson is a well-known name, given his role as a guitar player in SABATON. But before he joined the Swedish war machine, he had his own band REINXEED. His touring activities with SABATON slowed down the creative process for REINXEED but the group has now returned - seemingly out of nowhere - with a new 10-track album entitled Above The Sky and a brand new name, MAJESTICA. The new album sees Tommy taking on vocal duties, something he last showcased as TWILIGHT FORCE's stand-in singer throughout autumn of 2017. Tommy states, "It's been many years since we last released an album, so we decided to 'start over' as a new band, MAJESTICA, instead. It's not only a majestic and epic name for a power metal band from Sweden, it's also a tribute to the album Majestic that we released with REINXEED in 2010. We came up with it and it sounded great, it felt perfect for this kind of music and just feels right." The new band name is not the only change the guys have made as the quartet is now a trio. Previous fans of the band need not worry though as MAJESTICA bagged no less than Uli Kusch (ex-HELLOWEEN) to record drums on their debut album. Tommy comments, "It was a huge honour and his drums make this album sound more alive than any album I've ever recorded with any other band before. Since many songs are inspired by HELLOWEEN and GAMMA RAY it just felt right to have his drumming and input on the songs." MAJESTICA is: Tommy Johansson |guitars, vocals Alex Oriz | guitars Chris David | bass Daniel Sjögren | drums (live)

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Elusive Self—Musing 76

Non-self observing the self: creeks, rivers chasms dark scales fall away

Looking for, looking at, the elusive self. Who is looking?

Who is moving and who is still?

Who morphs a million times a second into a blur of really-hard-to-grasp, and who takes it all in stride

Shankara agrees with the Upanishads: Atman is Brahman.

Atman is unconditioned. Brahman is unconditioned. The two are One.

The Buddha called this One: Emptiness—perhaps the Little Emptiness and the Big Emptiness, equally boundless, equally empty, equally each other.

The Buddha called Atman a Non-Self.

The Buddha defined what we think of as the self as: the Five Aggregates (form, feeling, perception, thought, consciousness—all in a neat, mobile bundle).

How, then, does the Atman, the Non-Self, get a good look at the blur of ingredients that constitute the oh so cherished and ego-dominated self?

How does he sharpen his discrimination, differentiation, discernment?

How does he slow down the rush of oncoming and receding nows that he might get a good, close look at a single instant?

To me, there is only meditation. The quiet room with eyes closed and thoughts stilled and gone. What’s left when all else has departed is that which never arrived in the first place and so cannot depart—Atman.

The first time I came across this concept, this relation between Brahman and Atman (it was in 1968, in southern Sweden) it rang a bell so clearly that I could not help but laugh: oh, how true!

I have walked many a road since, and the concept has faded in and out (mostly out) over the years but it never abandoned me (or I it). At ground zero, I always agreed, always knew, Atman is Brahman is Atman is Brahman is Atman, it could never be otherwise.

Recently, I’ve re-come across Shankara, that eighth century Indian genius who took it upon himself to shake Hinduism awake again and resurrect the truth of the Upanishads—hailing thought well above ritual once again. And here he comes, bearing gifts, telling me over and over and over: Atman is Brahman. Brahman is Atman. You are Atman. You are Brahman.

Atman is the non-self that does the looking and who understands what is sees, Brahman is the non-self that does the looking and who understands what it sees.

The relative, aggregate self, is simply so much local terrain: creeks, rivers, chasms, weather systems of jealousy and deserts of hunger, droplets of love and caverns of hatred—never a dull moment; the poisoned corner of Atman hanging on for dear life singing “me, me, me” while checking his new smartphone for text messages and recent selfies.

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